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formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)- Under labor law, the clergy can be required to uphold the beliefs of the religion they have chosen.
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
- She was surprised to hear a member of the clergy talk like that.
- The church is not the stone building nor even the clergy and their dogmas.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- "I am a clergyman," he said; "and the clergy are often appealed to about odd matters."Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- Cesar was surprised to hear a member of the clergy saying such things.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- Duc is an ordained member of the Buddhist clergy, a monastic who lives a meditative life of poverty.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- Padre de Jesus and Brother Daniel had been down in the capital throughout July conferring with other clergy.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- He had appealed to the clergy to recognize slavery as a sin, and urged all legislators, "ye advocates for American liberty," to work for the liberty of blacks as well.David McCullough -- John Adams
- The funeral directors were not merely men selling a commodity; other than clergy, they were the ones most intimately in touch with the townspeople in their times of sorrow and need.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- I just don't know what's happening to the clergy these days.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Mark and Jim met the clergy at Gilford village.Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- And from then on they launched a series of drive-by shootings and bombings, usually directed at local officials and pro-government clergy.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- She was looking clean as clergy.Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die
- And he has also left other directions which the clergy of the village say should not and must not be obeyed because they savour of paganism.Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
- "Ay, that's true," said Mr. Tulliver, almost convinced now that the clergy must be the best of schoolmasters.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- Many of their leaders were in fact members of the Protestant clergy who believed that enslaving fellow human beings was a sin and an abomination unto the Lord.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- Someone in the clergy.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- If there had been a huge crowd yesterday, today's hearing had brought more people, including several clergy members and older people of color I'd never seen before.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
clergy = group of religious leaders
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leadership (in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = religious leaders
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
clergy = formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)
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